"What are you doing?"
"I am drinking."
"Why are you drinking?"
"So that I may forget."
"Forget what?"
"Forget that I am ashamed."
"Ashamed of what?"
"Ashamed of drinking!"
The Little Prince finds it hard to understand the tippler's logic. The tippler continues this perpetuating cycle that really gets the tippler no where.
Sometimes people find themselves following the traditions of religion yet they don't really believe in many of the doctrines. It is usually because that was how they were raised and the one thing that lingers or pulls them back is the guilt. Which is also an unhealthy cycle and way to go about religion. Religion shouldn't make us feel ashamed of our humanity but rather make us aware of it and what we can do to make us feel better about our human nature.
Some may find themselves going to church every Sunday to feel better about the sins they've committed throughout the week. Others may go to confession to receive the proper penance.
What do these rituals really accomplish spiritually though? Do these become crutches to lean on when we feel like giving into our human nature? Creating the same perpetual cycle as the tippler's?
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